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CVE-2015-5261
Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via…
High7.1EPSS 0.47%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.47% · top 60% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- RHSA-2015:1890 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151006 Fwd: [vs-plain] CVE-2015-5261 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201606-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261889 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2766-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [Spice-devel] 20151006 Announcing spice 0.12.6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1889 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3371 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1033753 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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